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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1925
Page
3
A Corry Pa post office notice introduces a National Conference on Highway Safety urging broad reform. Speaker cites 22 000 deaths and 678 000 injuries last year and argues that licensing, driver behavior, and better road design, including wider center lanes and gentler slopes, can reduce crashes.
Two convicted firebugs who owned a western restaurant and conspired to defraud creditors were paroled after a sentence of years each. Officials claim incendiary fires cause $5 000 000 in property losses and condemn leniency that endangers lives and harms insurance costs.
A 1905 recap notes near fatal accident averted by Providence and local aid. Residents of North Corre a curving street aided a man who fell freezing. Reports mention church arrivals, a German Catholic pastor, a hospital sleigh ride, and a medical exam for a Western River company position.
Sunday church services led by Rev G J Eighmey with Sunday School and Christian Endeavor activities. Annual cemetery association directors chosen. meetings noted for Lady Ruth Rebekah Lodge Grange and Community Aid. Local birthdays, proscriptions on business hours, and a Marsh birthday gathering are listed among society items.
Daniel Ridley aged about 14 or 15 was found on the tracks in Wesleyville yards of the New York Central railroad with a severely injured leg near St Vincent's Hospital. Police say evidence links him to a robbery of two freight cars. two bags of feed were stolen and a single shoe was found near the scene. The youth's condition was reported serious with possible amputation.
Mrs Susan M Lyons of Titusville Pennsylvania praises Thompson's Barosma as a cure all for rheumatism and kidney and liver issues. The ad lists N F Ames Co Thomas Dwoney R G Lindsley and Condra Drug Store selling the product at 100 dollars a bottle with money back if it fails to drive away symptoms.
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